China has got to start “playing by the rules.” The CNBC video below opens with Vice President Mike Pence, but the bulk of the interview is with Democratic Senator Chris Coons (CT).
VP Pence said, “For too long one administration after another, Republican and Democrat administrations, were willing to accept extraordinary disadvantages to American workers and American jobs in the name of trade with China.”
While Senator Coons disagrees with some of the ways the Trump Administration has done to get the U.S. to this point in global trade issues in general, he clear said that he hopes the president won’t back down now.
- “The president is right to make this the center point of the rising and sustained trade conflict.”
- “My hope is that the president … will get something that is enforceable around IP theft.”
The markets moved down today when the Chinese reportedly ended the meeting early. President Trump said that there is no pressure on him to get a trade deal before the 2020 election.
With respect to Senator Coons on holding tough on China, he is sounding a similar Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer (NY-D), who has also publicly encouraged the president to stay the course on China. It is one of those seemingly rare areas of bipartisanship.
“The vice president has it right,” Coons said in the interview. “This is essentially about China’s mercantilism. The way they have stolen vast amounts of technology. The president is right to make this the center point of the rising and sustained trade conflict.”
Several other topics are tackled, including big tech, antitrust, privacy, the ways that regulations can be sued to protect big companies against smaller competitors. Rephrased, while Senator Coons may take a different tact on this or that topic than MHProNews editorially holds, in terms of his reading of the facts, there are several points of commonality.
“We cannot be the party of free stuff. That doesn’t work.” He made the case for former VP Joe Biden over Senators Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped out, as the more progressive lane he is in is firmly in the hands of Senators Warren and Sanders. De Blasio is polling near zero.
But one wonders if former Representative John Delaney may at some point gain momentum? While there is no data supporting that, given concerns such as Senator Coons has raised about Democrats lurching too far left, or worries that the former Obama era VP Biden has lost a step or two could haunt that moderate lane in the party. Time will tell.
During the interview, Coons referenced a quote he attributed to former Democratic Senator and then Vice President Hubert Humphrey. It was about concern over not only the working man, but the fact that someone must be concerned about who working people work for – an apt point for those who merely want to punish business.
That sparked a look at some Humphrey quotes. As always, keep the principle of wheat and chaff in mind.
It didn’t turn up that one Senator Coons mentioned, but there were several other gems that are shown above.
That’s your second installment that seeks the common ground where Democrats and Republicans can work together, not unlike the report linked below.
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